[Fedora-livecd-list] Is it possible to have an updatable system on a usb stick?

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 08:43 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >> Also, after reading a previous post on this list, I would keep updates
> > >> to only things you care about since the overlay file records block
> > >> changes and you will eventually run out of overlay.
> > > This is the case and unfortunately, with things currently in the
> kernel,
> > > I don't really see any way around it.  Modulo writing some tool to
> > > (likely offline) analyze and rewrite the snapshot file.  But relatively
> > > deep dark voodoo required to write such a tool
> >
> > I don't know if this would be easier, but what about a tool that would
> > incorporate the changes back into the image file and then re-zero the
> > overlay?
>
> The problem is that incorporating the changes back in basically boils
> down to "make a new image".  Which isn't that difficult to do, it's just
> a matter of having the disk space for it and also the time -- it'd
> largely just be a matter of running good chunks of the livecd image
> creation process over again.
>
> Jeremy
>
> Well, I don't know about other users of the live USB system, but that would
be okay with me. A prereq. would be you have enough HD space to copy the
image, update it, and then copy it back to the USB drive.

Richard
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/livecd/attachments/20080804/978f6627/attachment.html